newtoncooper.bsky.social
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So is the hero one of the Roman soldiers that executed Christ?
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Waiting for all the Trump-loving conservative educators on Twitter to explain that this is actually a good thing.
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You’re more of an expert than I am. Glad to see OK is a little closer than … West Virginia
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Given how much Trump is tanking the economy, the GOP will struggle to break ... 70 percent. Yeah, they'll have to settle for a 35-point victory.
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So sorry to hear. May I ask what fields you are pursuing?
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The Don: “When Carlo said he knew where your kids live, he didn’t mean nothing by it. He just gets a little worked up, that’s all. And so long as you keep paying your ‘insurance money,’ you got nothing to worry about.”
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He wants vaccination to be “safe, legal … and rare.”
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Exactly. Or maybe the head of your private army decides he wants to be king himself and just offs you like the Praetorian Guard used to do with caesars.
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Apparently it is … as long as it happens to someone else.
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Truth. You’d have thought we would have learned our lessons from Vietnam and the Bush era. Other people have pride too.
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No kidding.Plus these new factories will almost certainly be highly automated and require much fewer workers who will have to be highly skilled and educated.
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China, in particular, will not come crawling. MAGA who believe that there will be popular demonstrations forcing the government to give in to Trump are delusional. If anything, there will be huge demonstrations IF Xi gives in.
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It also underscores the long-held conservative belief that the US is the ONLY country in the world that feels national pride. We made the same mistake in Iraq and were surprised when the Shiite population (who hated Saddam) rose up against us as occupiers.
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Not to mention they are a totalitarian state that can ignore public opinion longer than we can.
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True. Though one of the challenges of physical work is that it puts a lot of stress on your body. So folks like roofs or auto techs generally have to retire earlier than office workers.
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My thoughts exactly.
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Seems like tariff supporters fall into two mutually exclusive camps: one party believes this will restore American manufacturing and hence the tariffs will be permanent, the other believes this is merely a lever to prompt other countries to drop their tariffs on our exports.
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100 percent. It’s ultimately his ego. He craves adulation and people crawling to him.
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Yes. I’ve visited a few of them. You are absolutely right about the ripple effect. VW/Audi are based in Michigan, Subaru and BMW are in NJ, Toyota in Frisco, TX, Nissan in TN, the remaining Asians in So Cal.
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You're right
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Not to mention there are a lot of Americans selling and servicing foreign made vehicles. Oh yeah, and marketing and advertising them. And selling products to the dealerships that sell the cars. Lots of people affected.
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First time I laughed today.
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Today's conservatives have stripped all the idealism out of the old conservatism. It. is now just raw self interest which, in the end, will actually put us in a worse place. The part of me which still values a conservative philosophy feels very disillusioned.
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So the new conservatives don't believe in immigration. They don't believe in alliances. They don't believe in free markets. And they no longer believe in preserving institutions either. Old conservatives quoted Chesterton and argued we should be leery of mindless change. Well, forget about that.
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4/ But the premise was that everyone benefitted from free trade. Old conservatives also believed in alliances with other free countries. Back then some Dems were the ones opposing NATO. Conservatives strongly backed NATO. They also believed America had let down former allies like South Vietnam.
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3/ Not to mention the old school cons were very free trade. Again, some can say that was problematic, that it resulted in factories being shut down, but cons would argue that this had more to with the resurgence of foreign manufacturing capacity in the decades after WWII.
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2/ For example, Reagan was very pro-immigrant. He saw America as the "city on the hill." And even though I know the history of that phrase is problematic, I still thrill to the concept of it. The idea that America is a place where everyone wants to come, that we are a beacon to the world.
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Love how Johnson credits Trump’s “instincts,” which is a weasel word for admitting there is no planning, data, logic or supporting history behind it.
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You could say the same thing, word for word, substituting “foreign affairs” for “economy.”
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Well, that first sentence may prove to be correct.
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Yeah, for such seemingly super successful people, they have no feel for complex systems or even basic “cause and effects.”
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You’re double double negative, baby!
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Not Richard Chamberlain! He was a legend. RIP.
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100 percent. Literally no one cared about Greenland, even the right-wingers at Heritage. This all manufactured to give credence to Trump's delusions.
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It's amateur hour to be sure, but Greenland is very sparsely populated and Denmark doesn't have a huge military presence there. I think we can occupy it pretty quickly. And then? Who knows. It's nightmarish to even contemplate.
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But now something feels different. I hope I'm wrong.
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I'm getting nervous. They are arrogant and believe in their own infallibility. GOP won't stop them and Dems can't. I've been hoping this would be just another example of Trump making grandiose promises and never following through (like infrastructure week and the healthcare plan in his first admin).
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I’m so sorry.
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Sounding a lot like … socialism.
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Russians must be laughing their *sses off.
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Aw, more power to you. Life well lived.
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True!!! And even many of his strong supporters excuse his threats as “you know, it’s just Trump driving a hard bargain.”
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How about sending the Commander in Chief to do the training?
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I’m a Californian who respects Sen. Schiff for leading the impeachment investigation of Pres. Trump. That took a lot of courage. And he’d have beaten Rep. Porter straight up even if she’d made it to the general election.
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Yep. And the same folks that supported Bush were accusing Harris of being a warmonger.
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True! But ... Black citizens did not directly benefit from much of this. In fact, they were excluded from most of the New Deal because otherwise Southern Dems would have blocked FDRs agenda. Progressive policies are much more popular when they only benefit White people.